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And what does your donation pay for? Check out our free podcasts by clicking on the upper right hand corner button. You'll hear a one-of-a-kind community radio show for and about sexual minorities around the world -- produced with a large pool of unpaid volunteers. Our “NewsWrap” segment offers radio’s only international weekly LGBT newscast. "This Way Out" program features have run the diverse gamut of LGBT-related subject matter, including conversations with award-winning playwrights Adam Bock, Jeffrey Jay Fowler and Tony Kushner, drag diva RuPaul, and trans-artists S. Bear Bergman and Tobias K. Davis. We also heard from Two-Spirit leader Richard La Fortune, author/actor/youth advocate James Lecesne, feminist law professor Nancy Polikoff, Jamaican activist Gareth Henry and Stop Murder Music leader Akim Larcher, retiring gay New Zealand M.P. Tim Barnett, notoriously “out” and funny jazz singer Lea DeLaria, “Running With Scissors” and “A Wolf at the Table” novelist Augusten Burroughs, “When You’re Fully Engulfed in Flames” humorist David Sedaris, and gay Muslim director and co-producer Parvez Sharma about his documentary “A Jihad for Love.” Creator Del Shores and star Jason Dottley discussed their hilarious Logo TV series “Sordid Lives,” and Darryl Stephens, the title character in the groundbreaking Logo TV series and follow-up movie “Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom” talked about battling homophobia in the African-American community. Ex “ex-gay” activist Peterson Toscano described his “adventures" at the global Anglican Communion's once-a-decade Lambeth Conference in England, and we aired excerpts from an interview about lesbigay issues with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Award-winning writer Janet Mason continues to offer LGBT literary critiques and commentaries, and we celebrated the 25th anniversary of venerable Canada Customs-fighting Vancouver bookstore Little Sister’s with co-founder Jim Deva and longtime manager Janine Fuller. We traced the herstory of Olivia Records with co-founder Judy Dlugacz, and previewed the musical “Babe” (Didrikson) and a play about the life of James Baldwin.
Chris Wilson and JD Doyle, orchestrated by production guru Christopher David Trentham, again managed to narrow a year's worth of outstanding LGBT music down to seven favorites for their annual "Audiofile Year in Review." Sample selections from 2007 CDs by Levi Kreis ("The Gospel According to Levi"), The Cliks ("Snakehouse"), Bluehouse ("One More Kiss"), Joshua Klipp ("Won't Stop Now"), Jennifer Leitham ("The Real Me"), Brian Glenn ("Original Intent"), and Ari Gold ("Transport Systems"). Enjoy this keepsake gender-and-genre-bending half-hour "soundtrack" to the ups and downs of queer life in 2007!
Another tumultuous year in the global struggle for LGBT equality was also reflected in the movies and on television in 2007. Our award-winning entertainment reporter STEVE PRIDE has consummate clips, and comments by their creators, as he recalls some of the queer moving images that moved him most in "PRIDE ON SCREEN 2007." Part 1 covers television, and includes clips from "Desperate Housewives," "Ugly Betty," "Dirty Sexy Money," "Greek," "As The World Turns," and "Torchwood," with comments by "Torchwood" creator Russell T. Davies; the much longer Part 2 reveals Steve's picks for the Top 10 films of 2007: "East Side Story," with a clip and comments by writer/director Carlos Portugal; a clip from "Camp Out"; a clip from "Amnesia – The James Brighton Enigma," and comments by director Denis Langlois; "Fat Girls," with a clip and comments by writer/director/producer/actor Ash Christian; "Puccini for Beginners," with a clip and comments by writer/director Maria Maggenti; "Colma: The Musical," with an excerpt from one of its songs, "Maybe This Time" and comments by writer/star H.P. Mendoza and director Richard Wong; "The Bubble," with an excerpt from the film's "The Man I Love" and comments by writer/director Eytan Fox; "Boy Culture," with a clip and comments by writer/director Q. Allan Brocka; director Daniel Karslake's "For the Bible Tells Me So," with a clip and comments by co-writer/co-producer Helen Mendoza; and 1986's reissued "Parting Glances," with clips and comments by the landmark film's openly gay star Richard Ganoung. Also still available:
From "Walk On Water," "Gay Sex in the 70s," and "Capote" to "Mysterious Skin," "Transamerica," and "Brokeback Mountain," Steve Pride offers clips and comments by many of the filmmakers themselves in his review of the most memorable moments on big and small screens in 2005, unquestionably a high-water mark for queer cinema.
The legendary American DJ known as "Dr. Demento" raised audio kitsch to an artform. As "Nurse Pimento", the late Southern California gay activist and radio producer David Fradkin added his own kind of spice to pursuing the peculiarities of popular culture in this early 1980s half-hour production, which features some offbeat queer words and music from Carroll "Archie Bunker" O'Connor, Groucho Marx, Perry Como, Laurel and Hardy, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, Tommy Smothers, Martin Mull, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Noel Coward, the poignant self-aware words of Holocaust teen diarist Anne Frank, Bessie Smith singing, and her niece Ruby telling interviewer Chris Albertson about, their especially entertaining visit to a "Buffet Flat" -- and more! And our special coverage of some of the historic events in the queer community is still available:
A keepsake collection of more than an hour of "This Way Out" reports, with the voices of many of the activists involved, covering the advent of legal same gender marriage in Canada, the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning state sodomy laws, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision opening legal marriage to queer couples, and a P-FLAG mom's "on scene" account of and sound from the consecration of openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson.
$25 Please select *one* of the following 4 choices: $50 Please select *two* of the following 4 choices: $100 All 4 "Queer Culture" CDs: $150 OR MORE All *three* "Queer History" CDs: $200 OR MORE All *seven* of these Outstanding Queer Culture & History CDs:
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AUDIOFILE 2007 YEAR IN REVIEW
Interviews With Authors & Performers
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